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The music reminds me of a small group of coders I was inspired by at my first startup. Back then I was only doing tech support and light front-end work, but every day it was three programmers and I getting stuff done to music like this. Ever since then, this kind of music is a great booster for me, even though I get embarrassed if someone comes into my office while it's playing...

The only thing I try for nowadays is to find an energetic, repetitive mix with no vocals.

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If you want non-stop energetic, yet "smooth" techno with some soothing vocals, I recommend you check into trance. Specifically, "A State of Trance". There was a 6-city, 6 week tour that just ended last weekend. All of the music is playable here: http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv And downloadable here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=316...

(I code to this music EVERY day)

Another smooth genre is "deep house", also found in genres like slowmo, nu disco. An example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tD74t6K7mI

You'd appreciate http://www.deepmix.eu - a massive amount of 1-hour deephouse mixes from Moscow for download and looping on internet radio.

That's good, thanks. While we're here, I'd like to drop a link to every BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix from 1993-2011 on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix.

http://themixingbowl.org/ and http://www.livesets.us/ are great sources for EDM mixes also

Hey, so do I! In fact I went to the London part of the tour where it was recorded live.

Trance.fm is also pretty good source, they play non stop trance with no interruptions. Great for coding against as long as it isn't too loud!

OMGosh that is great stuff. Great! I just wish I could find it on pandora.

Another good source, the trance tag on mixcloud.com. I particularly like Paul Oakenfold's "Planet Perfecto".

I also like Psytrance. I just search for Psytrance on shoutcast and go with one of the top 3. The nice thing about these kind of genres is they're loud and monotonous and drown out the world, whilst not being too much work to listen to.

I also recommend the podcast, "Trance Around the World" -- two hours of awesome trance. I program with it on, I go to sleep with it playing, we just had a party with it playing in the background.

(Also, if you are a Spotify user, try the Radio/Trance mix.)

I tried that once, but found it a bit too distracting -- too much overenthusiastic DJ voice over in it to really get into the zone while programming.

i know the feeling, but .. don't be embarrassed, whatever music you want to listen to, you should listen to,

Right. If it helps you be productive, the shame would be not in listening to it but in failing to. And what are headphones for?

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